Phasing out breastfeeding

[teacher123]

DS is nearly 9mo and has been a bottle refuser since about 4 months... He has 3 good meals a day and will drink formula and water out of a tommee tippee sippy cup in the daytime. He currently has a bf first and last thing and if he wakes in the night. I would like to stop breastfeeding completely soon, but am at a loss how to get rid of the bedtime feed as he won't take a bottle! I've started giving him supper just before we come upstairs for bathtime-he'll have a yoghurt or some porridge. Do babies need milk at bedtime? Any advice gladly received!

No advice really, but interested in what others have to say! My one yr old dd is down to just the bedtime bf and I'm after tips on how to transition to milk in a cup then going to bed, rather than feeding to sleep.
Not in a massive rush to make the change though - its such a lovely snugly thing to do that I expect I shall miss it!

I know what you mean, it is the only time in the day that he sits still!! And he's started stroking my hair and face whilst gazing at me in an adoring fashion at bedtime. As DH says, he knows I'm trying to quit!

Watching with interest. My 9mo dd is the same. Refuses bottle but happily breast feeds. I am desperate to give up night feeds and feels she eats well during day.

i too will watch with interest, sorry op no answers, ds is 18m and in the last week is refusing his last and only feed before bed, i am worried he is not getting enough milk but he won't drink milk in a cup or beaker!

Blatantly place marking as I'm in exactly the same boat here.

I've just completed our phasing out - day 4 of no bf and she is starting to get the message rather than trying to rip my top off. I dropped one feed at a time starting with daytime feeds. I introduced a cup for these instead, which sounds like the stage you are at now.

Once she was happy with this I dropped the night feed and just gave her water if she woke. An alternative would be to give formula and make it progressively weaker.

I then dropped the morning feed - giving a cup and breakfast instead. This is when she started to get grumpy! After another two weeks I stopped the bedtime feed - giving another cup. I suspect the bedtime feed will disappear completely soon as she doesn't take much. Dh took on the whole bedtime routine when I dropped the feed and goes in to settle her if she needs it during the night. I know that if I go in she will get upset - poor love.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

I should have mentioned that dd is 11 months.

...and giving up is very sad. I cried .